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Because it seeks monopoly in the sphere of economics, in the sphere of politics,

and in the sphere of diplomacy, finance capital,

quite rightly as Lenin says after Hilferding, seeks domination.

That is the substance of imperialist policy, both in its home policy

and in its policy abroad.

I mean... people don't feel the same pinch in the imperialist countries because

things are relatively still better compared with what happens in... in... in the...

in the poor impoverished countries. But in the final analysis, imperialism is not

into democracy. Two million people can

stage a walk and a demonstration in Hyde Park Corner against the then

impending Iraq war.

Does anybody take notice of them? Of course not. It's...

you know, it's a democratic country, you have the right to demo...

to... to... to... to demonstrate.

And of course, the British government, the ruling class,

has the democratic right to be sending its airplanes over the heads

of the people who are demonstrating and... and... beginning to bomb... bomb Iraq.

Let nobody get the impression,

as Paul said in his introduction,

that we communists are pacifists and we are opposed to all war.

We're not opposed to all war.

We recognize certain wars which are legitimate. To name those legitimate wars:

wars of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie are legitimate, and we support them.

Secondly, wars of national liberation against imperialism and colonialism

are legitimate wars and we... we support them. Thirdly, the wars of...

uh... the rising...

uh... even bourgeois forces against absolutism, medievalism and feudalism are

just wars, they are progressive wars in history, and we support them.

And finally, the wars of victorious socialism against reactionary states,

as for example the war of

intervention against the young Soviet Republic in... in... in... at the end of...

following the October Revolution,

and of course the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union...

...um... during the Second World War.

We supported the position of the Soviet Union, or had we been there,

we would have supported that... that position.